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AMD: Where we're going we don't need (as much) DRAM
The House of Zen's Mext team promises smarter SWAP through the power of, you'll never guess: AI
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Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Over 200 Vulnerabilities Addressed by Intel, AMD
Intel and AMD disclose more than 200 vulnerabilities, including critical flaws in Intel TDX software and numerous AMD graphics bugs. The post Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Over 200 Vulnerabilities Addressed by Intel, AMD appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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AMD winds up Zen 6 cores for faster clock speeds
Chips boast up to 256 cores, clocks up to 5.3 GHz, and IPC gains of 20 to 31 percent, just not all on the same SKU
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AMD's Epyc X-chips are back after a three-year hiatus
Venice-X promises big speedup for EDA and HPC workloads
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A closer look at Verano, AMD's first step toward a Zen-based superchip to rival Nvidia's Vera Rubin
Cores, clocks, memory, and interconnects all perfectly balanced for a singular mission: keeping instinct fed.
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Veeam warns of Software Appliance boot failures on AMD EPYC hosts
Veeam warned customers about boot failures affecting Software Appliance virtual machines (VMs) on hosts with AMD EPYC processors. [...]
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AMD on track to overtake Intel as biggest x86 outfit
CEO says supply chain can cope with surging datacenter and AI demand
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AMD unveils Helion as agentic AI fuels demand for data center CPUs
AMD has introduced Helion, an open blueprint for data center racks that aims to give CPUs a larger role in running AI agents while allowing customers to configure GPU resources around their inference requirements. Based on Open Compute Project (OCP) specifications, the archite…
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AMD unveils Helion racks for AI agents at OCP summit
CPU-only and mixed CPU/GPU configurations due from partners in November
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HPE supercharges ProLiant servers with AMD’s EPYC 9006 processors
With an emphasis on high performance and embedded security, HPE is rolling out the next generation of its ProLiant server family anchored by AMD’s EPYC 9006 processor. The ProLiant Gen 13 portfolio includes four new models that boost core density, memory bandwidth, and I/O for ru…
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AMD to ramp up CPU, GPU supply in 2027 as AI demand surges
As the demand for AI infrastructure continues to outstrip available capacity, AMD is planning a substantial increase in CPU and GPU supply in 2027. During her recent visit to Taiwan, AMD CEO Lisa Su confirmed that the company is working to expand supply across its ecosystem and i…
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AMD's 192 GB Gorgon Halo prices might leave you petrified
Regular pricing starts at $6,799 - all that memory doesn't come cheap
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New Spectre v2 Variant Exposes Intel, AMD, Arm CPUs to Data Leaks
Branch Target Reuse (BTR) is a new Spectre v2 attack targeting JIT compilers in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel The post New Spectre v2 Variant Exposes Intel, AMD, Arm CPUs to Data Leaks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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AMD agrees to buy World Labs to fill out its AI stack
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has agreed to buy World Labs, a developer of AI “world models” that incorporate knowledge of the physical world, to extend the AI ecosystem around its hardware to encompass areas such as robotics, simulation and physical AI. Historically, AMD was s…
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AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li just co-founded spatial AI research company World Labs in 2024. Now it's joining AMD
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Lunex Stealer Abuses AMD Driver to Disable Security Monitoring and Steal Browser Credentials
The Psychedelic Stealer malware distributed via compromised Ukrainian websites using ClickFix-style Cloudflare verification checks is part of a wider malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform called Lunex. The new findings come from Ontinue, which described the activity as a four-sta…
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An Epyc trip to Venice: Everything we do and don't know about AMD's 256-core monster chip
16 channels of DDR5, 5 GHz clock speeds, and support for CXL 3.1 memory god boxes? What's not to like?
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Perpetual underdog AMD nips at Nvidia's heels as it joins the $1T club
Fueled by the AI boom, the House of Zen's rise isn't just Instinct - Lisa Su is riding high on some Epyc design chops too
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New DDRop Attack Breaks Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP Confidential Computing
Researchers have disclosed a new hardware attack, called DDRop, that breaks the memory protection in Intel and AMD confidential computing by silently dropping writes to a server's memory, so the processor keeps reading old encrypted data as if it were current. The attack require…
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Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Nvidia, AMD, Arm Issue Security Advisories
Major chipmakers announced patches for vulnerabilities recently discovered in their products. The post Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Nvidia, AMD, Arm Issue Security Advisories appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets
AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk
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VMware uses Nvidia-favored 'AI factory' brand to build something with rival AMD
Forget the confusing branding and focus on your shrinking token bill
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AMD grabs more CPU share while pricier PCs punish desktop demand
Mercury Research blames costly memory and scarce GPUs for 20% processor shipment slide
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AMD inches closer to its goal of making AI suck less ... energy
House of Zen claims latest systems already 4x more efficient than two years ago
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Reports: Google partnering with AMD for next-gen hybrid TPU
Google is reportedly working with AMD on the design of a next generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) aimed at workloads that increasingly combine artificial intelligence acceleration with conventional computing. According to a number of industry reports, the companies are exp…
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Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Intel, AMD Fix Over 80 Vulnerabilities Combined
Intel has informed customers about several high-severity vulnerabilities that can lead to privilege escalation and even code execution. The post Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Intel, AMD Fix Over 80 Vulnerabilities Combined appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs
Timer interrupts reopen branch predictor poisoning window, with a working Zen 2 exploit to prove it
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AMD to buy Taalas, maker of model-specific AI chips for enterprise inference
As enterprises look for ways to cut the cost of running AI models in production, AMD is betting that not every AI workload will be best served by a power-hungry general-purpose GPU. AMD has agreed to buy Taalas, the Canadian designer of chips that permanently embed a trained A…
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AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon
Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second
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New Interrupt Injection Attack Can Bypass Spectre v2 Defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs
An unprivileged Linux program can time a hardware interrupt to land in the gap between a processor sanitizing its branch predictor and the kernel using it, re-poisoning the predictor after the defense has run. MIT CSAIL researchers Daniël Trujillo and Mengjia Yan named the techn…